(MENAFN- The Peninsula) By Fazeena Saleem / The Peninsula
With an aim to promote the delivery of safe and high-quality patient care, many faculty members and students in the healthcare industry were provided with comprehensive training in Doha last week.
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)'s second edition of the Academy for Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety (AELPS) hosted more than 150 faculty and student participants over five days at the Education City.
The student participants in the international academy learnt about the importance of open communication, and specific tools and strategies that can be used to reduce harm to patients.
The faculty members learnt at the academy how to effectively teach students best practices around patient safety. The programme was designed to teach participants through discussing case studies and taking part in various practical demonstrations.
Participants included Qatar-based faculty and health science students from Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, University of Calgary in Qatar, College of North Atlantic, Qatar and Qatar University as well as members of staff from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), experts from Hamad Medical Corporation, and Sidra Medical and Research Center (Sidra). It was held in collaboration with MoPH and the US based MedStar Health.
'The programme aims to design, create and provide exceptional training for aspiring healthcare practitioners committed to becoming leaders in patient safety. It identifies a future faculty and novice in patient safety champions and develop knowledge, skills and behaviours in a nurturing think-tank educational environment, Maha El Akoum, Research and Policy Development Officer at WISH, told The Peninsula, in reply to a query on the impact of AELPS.
'The academy will provide learners with the knowledge and experiences that promote discipline, competence and a sense of personal and societal responsibility for the delivery of safe, high quality patient care, she added.
For the second year in Doha, the AELPS has trained a future generation of patient safety leaders from different backgrounds with the aim of bridging the gap between research and practice.
Huda Amer Al Katheeri, Acting Director of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Department at the MoPH, said, 'The Ministry of Public Health is proud to co-sponsor the Academy of Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety 2017. I am very confident that everyone attending this training can be a change agent toward the improvement of quality and safety of patients. I believe that we must all work together to achieve this goal, and I am hopeful that each participant will leave this training with lessons they can pass on to others and contribute towards avoiding patient harm, thereby enhancing the healthcare system in Qatar.
The first phase of the five-day programme aimed at faculty, and addressed how to effectively teach students best practices on patient safety, as well as encourage their students to pursue open and honest communication with their patients and each other, in order to reduce medical error.
The second phase, tailored for students, aimed to equip participants with specific strategies that can be used to reduce harm to patients through a range of interactive and hands-on exercises. They heard from MedStar Health patient-safety advocates, who shared lessons with contemporaries from other disciplines, to encourage future collaboration.
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